Bank refuses to compensate
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A Myanmar man filed a complaint with journalists at the Police Crime Suppression Division yesterday that a friend had stolen his personal documents to apply for a new ATM card and allegedly made off with his Bt76,000 in savings. He said the bank refused t
This was despite the court’s previous ruling penalising his friend Maung Maung, 25, for the crime, victim Ar You Zaw Htay, 30, said.
Atchariya Rungrattanapong, president of the Club for Justice who accompanied the victim, said Htay found that his passport, Bt1,000 in cash and bank savings account book had been stolen from his Samut Prakan home in June and filed a police complaint. This led to the arrest of his friend Maung Maung, who had used these documents to apply for an ATM card to withdraw the victim’s savings. Htay said the bank was responsible for allowing another person to apply for an ATM card and steal his money, but the bank refused to compensate, he said.
